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*~ STHE FERRY* /Taimage Tells of Davlo's Pas sage Over:the J:hrdan. FROM ALMOST UNNOTIGED Incident cf Olden Time Are Drawn Lesscns of Comfort a.rd Hcpefulness to Al Ocd's Chiidren. From an unnoticed incident of olden time Dr. Talmage in this discourse draws some comforting and rapturous lessons. The text is II Samuel xix, 18, "And there went over a ferryboat to carry over the king's household." Which of the crowd is the king? That short man, sunburnt and in fa tigue dress. It is David, the exiled king. He has defeated his enemies and is now going home to resume his palace. Good! I always like to see David come out ahead. But between him and his home there is the celebrated river Jordan which has to be passed. 'he king is accompanied to the bank of the river by an aristocratic old gen tieman of 80 years, Barzillai by name, who owned a fine country seat at Roge lim. Besides that, David has his lami ly with him. But how shall they get across the river? Wbi'e they are stand ing there I see.a ferryboat coming from the other si4i, and as it uts through 'G-ehwatearT -see the faces of David and his household brighten up at the thought of so soon getting home. No sooie; has the ferr5boat stiuck the ah~e than David and his family and his old friend Barzillai from Rogelim get on board the boat. Either with splashing oars at the side or with one oar sculling at the stern of the boat -they leave the eastern bank of the Jor dan and start for the western banx. That western bank is black with crowds of people, who are waving and shouting at the approach of the king and his family. The military are all out. Some of those who have been David's worst enemies now shout until they are hoarse at his return. No sooner has the boat struck the shore on the west ern side than the earth quakes and the heavens ring with cheers of welcome and congratulation. David and his family and Barsillsi from Rogelim step ashore. King David asks his old friend to go with him and live at the palace, but Barzillai apologizes and ntimatea-that -ha is infirm with age and too deaf to appreciate the music, and has a delicate appetite that wculd soon be cloyed with luxurious living, and so he begs that David would let him go back to his country seat. I once heard the father of a president of the United States say that e head just been to Washingtou to see his son in the White House, and he told me of the wonderful things that occurred there and of what Daniel Webster said to him, but he declared: "I was glad to get home. There wi' too much go ing on there for me." My father, an aged man, made his last visit at my house in Philadelphia, and after the church service was over, and we went home, some one in the house asked the aged man how he cnjoyed the ser vice. 'Well,' he repliei, "I ersjoyed the service, but there were too many people there for me. It troubled my head very mach." The fact is that old people do rLot like excitement. if ....-in----K-nmg David had asked Barzillai 30 years before to go to the palace, the probability is that Barzillai would have gore, but not now. They kiss each other goodby, a custom among men oriental, but in vogue yet wher e two brothers part or an aged father and a son go away from each 9ther never to meet again. No wonder that their lips met as King Dav'id End old Barzillai, at the prow of the ferryboat, parted forever. This river Jordan, in all ages and among all languages, has been the sym -' bol of the boundiary line between earth and heaven. Yet when, on a former occasion, I preached to you about the Jordanic pasbage 1 have no doubt that some of you despondtogly said. "bThe Lord might have divided Jordan for Joshua, but not for poor me." Cheer up! I want to show you-that there is a way over Jordan as well as through it. My text says, "And there went ever a ferryboat to carry over the kin's house ihold." IA~ gr cities are famniliar with _the ferry bos. it goes-irem San rancisco to OaklanTai&d from Liverpool to Birkenhead, and twice every sceuiar day of the week multitudes are on the ferryboats of our great cities, so that you will not need to hunt up a classical -- dictionary to find out what I mean while I am speaking to you about the passage of Daviai and his family across the river Jordan. My subject, in the first place, im asees me with the fact that when we .oss over from this world to the next ne boat will have to come .from the -ther side. The tribe of Judah, we are informed, sent this ferrs boat across. to get David and his household. I stand on the eastern side of the river Jordan, and I find no shipping at ..~Jbut while I am standing there I -.boat plowing through the river, .s I hear the swirl of the waters -the boat comes to the eastern side dhe Jordan and David and his family and his old friend step on board that oat I am mightily impressed with the fact that when we cross over from this world to the next the boat will have to w:'ne from the opposite shore. Blessed be God, there is a boat com ing from the other side! Transporta tion at last for our souls from the other shore; everything about this gospel from the other shore; pardon from the other shore; mercy from the other shore; pity from the other shore; ministry of angels from the other shore; power to -work miracles from the othsr shore; Jesus Christ from the other shore. "This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners," and from a foreign shore I see the fer ry boat coming, and it rolls with the surges of a Saviour's suffering;but as it strikes the earth the mountains rock, and the dead adjust their apparel so that they may be fit to come cut. That boat touches the earth, and glorious -AThomas Walsh gets into is in his ex piring moment, saying: "He has come! He hay come! M1y Beloved is mine, and I am his." Good Sarah Wesley Sgotinto that boat, and as she sbeved off A from the shore she cried: "Open the -gates! Open the gates!' I bless God that as the boat came from the other shore to take David and his men across, s- so, when we are about to die, the boat will come from the same direetion. G od Sforbid that I should ever trust to any. tng that starts from this side. ,.~ga my subj cm uggests that when erosover at the last the Kinrg wilt - eon board the boat. Ship carpentry in Bible times was in its infancy. The beats were not skillfully made, and I N> - ~.g-> aan very easily imagine that the *o men and the children of the king's household might have been nervous about going on that boat, afraid that the oarsman or the helmsman might give cut -and that the boat might be dashed on the rocks, as sometimes boats were dashed in the Jordan, and then 1 could have imagined the boat starting and rocking, and they crying out: "Oh, we are goinz to be lost. We are going down!" Not so. The king was on board the 'at, and those women and children and all the house hold of the king knew that every care was taken to have the king-the head of the empire-pass in safety. Now, I want to break up a delusion in your mind, and that is this: When cur friends go out from this world, we feel sorry for them because they have to go alone; and parents hold on to the hands of their children who are dying and hold on to something of the im pression that the moment they let go the little one will be in the darknerss and in the boat all alone. "Oh," the parent says, "if I could only go with my child, I would be willing to die a half dozen times. I am afraid she will be lost in the woods or in the dark ness; I am afraid she will be very much frightened in the boat all alone." "I break up the delusion. When a soul goes to heaven, it does not go alone; the King is on board the boat. Was Paul alone in the last extremity? Hear the shout of the sacred missionary as he cries out, "I am now ready to be of fered, and the time of my departure is at hand." Was John. Wesley alone in the last ex*remity? No Hear him say, "Best of all God is with us." Was Sir William Forbes alone in the last extremity? No. Hear him say to his friends. "Tcll all the people who are coming down to the bed of death from my experience it has no terrors." "O,," say a great many people, "that does very well for distinguished Christ ianq, but for me, a common man, for me, a common woman, we can't ex peat that guidance and help." If I should give you a passage of Scripture that would promise to you positively when you are crossing the river to the next world the king would be in the boat, would you believe the promise? 'Oh yes," y ou say, "I would. Here is the promise. "When thou. passest through the waters, I will be with thee, and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee." Christ at the sick pil low to take the soul out of the body; Christ to help the soul down the bank into the boat; Christ midstream; Christ on the other side to help the soul up the beach. Be comforted about your departed friends. Be comforted about your own demise when the time shall come. Tell it to all the people under the sun that no Christian ever dies alone; the King is in the boat. Again, my text suggests that leav. ing this world for heaven is only cross ing a ferry. Dr. Shaw estimates the average width of the Jordan to be about 30 yards. What, so narrow? Yes. "There went over a ferryboat to carry the king's household." Yes, going to heaven is only a short trip-only a fer ry. It may be 80 miles-that is 80 yers-before we get to the wet bank on the other side, but the crossing is short. I will tell you the whole secret. It is not five minutes across, nor three, nor one minute. It is an instantaneous transportation. People talk as though leaving this life, the Christian went floundering and swimming, to crawl up exhausted on the other shore, and to be pulled out of the pelting surf as by a Ramsgate lifeboat No such thing It is only a ferry. It is so narrow that we can hail each other from bank to bank. It is only four arms' lengths across. The arm of earthly farewell put out from this side the arm of heavenly wel come put out from the other side, while the dying Christian, standing midstream, stretched out his two arms, the one to take the farewell of earth, and other to take greeting of heaven That makes four arms' lengths across the river. Blessed be God, that when we leav.e this world we are not to have a great and perilous enterprise of getting into heaen. Not a dangerous Franklin ex peition to find the northwest passage among icebergs Only a ferry. That accounts for something you have nevz r been able to understand. You never supposed that very nervous and timid Christian people could be so un-exeited and placid in the last hour. Tne fa t s, they were clear down on the bank, and they saw there was nothing to be frightened about. Such a short dis tance-only a ferry. With one ear they heard the funeral psalm in their memory, and with the other ear they heard the sotrg-of- heavenly salu'anion. The willows on this side of Jord~n end the Lebanon cedars on the other almost interlocked their branches. Only a ferry. My subject also suggests the fact fact that when we cross over at the last we shall find a solid landing. The ferryboat as spoken of in my text means a place to start from and a plae to land. David and his people did not find the eastern shore of the Jordan any more solid than the western shore where he landed, and yet to a great many heaven is not a real place. To you heaven is a fog bank in the dis tance. Now, my heaven is a solid heaven. After the resurrection has come you will have a resurrected foot and something to tread ori and a res urreted eye and colors to see with it a resurrected ear and music to regale it. Smart men in this day are making a great deal of fun about St. John's materialistic descriptions of heaven. Well, now, my friends, if you will tell me what will be the. use of a resurrect ed body in heaven with nothing to tread on.and nothing to hear and noth ing to handle and nothiz'g to taste then I will laugh too. Are you going to feat about in ether forever, swinging about your hands and feet through the air indiscriminately, one moment swelter ing in the center of the sun and the nxt moment shivering in the mount ain. of the moon? That is not my heaven. Dissatisfied with John's ma terialistic heaven, theological tinkers are trying to patch up a heaven that will do for them at last. I never heard of any heaven I want to go to except St. John's heaven. I believe I shall hear Mr. Toplady sing yet and Isaac Watts recite hymns and Mozart play. "Oh," you say, "where would you get the organ?" The Lord will provide the organ. Don't you bother about the or gan. I believe I shall yet seeDavid with a harp, and I will ask him-to sing one of the songs of Zion. I believe after the resurrection I shall see Mas illon, the great French pulpit orator, and I shall hear from his own lips how he felt on that day when he preached the king's funeral sermon and flung his whiole audience into a paroxysm of gridf and solemnity. I have no pa tience with your transcendental, gel tinus, gaseous heaven. My heaven is rot a fog ba~nk. My eyes are unto the hills, the everlasting hills. The King's ferryboat, starting from a wharf en this side, will go to a wharf on the other side. Again, my subj ~ct teaches that when we cross over at the last we shall be ~et at the landing. When David and I his family went over in the ferryboat spoken of in the text, they landed amid a nation that had come out to greet them. As they'stepped from the deck of the bost to the shore there were thousands of people who gathered around them to express a satisfaction that was beyornd description. And so you an I will be met at the laudiog. Our arrival will not be like stepping ashore at Antwerp of Constantinople among a crowd of stranger3. It will be among friends, good friends, those who are warm hearted friends and all their friends. We know people whom we have never seen by hearing somebody talk about them very much; we know them almost as well as if we had seen them. And do you not suppose that our parents and brothers and sisters and children in heaven have been talking about us all these years, and tlking to their friends? So that, I suppose, when we cross the river at the last we shall not only be met by all those Christian friends whom we knew on earth, but by all their friends. They will come down to the landing to meet us. Your departed friends love you now more than they ever did You will be sur prised at the last to find how they know about all the affairs of your life. Why, they are only across the ferry, and the boat is coming this way, and the boat is going that way. I do not know but they have already asked the Lord the day, the hour, the moment when you are coming across and that they kciow now, but I do know that you will be met at the landing, The poet Southey said he thought he should know Bishosp Heber in heaven by the portraits he had seen of him ia London, and Dr. Randolph said he thought he would know William Cowpcr, the poet, in heaven from the pictures he had seen of him in England; but we wil know our departed kindrcd by the por traits hung in the throncroom of our hearts. Oa starlight nights youlook up-and I suppose it is so with any one who has friends in heaven-on starlight nights you look up, and you cannot help but think of those who have gone, and I suppose they look down and can not help but think of us. But they have the advantage of us. We know not just where their world ofjoy is; they know where we are. There was romance as well as Chris tian beauty in the life of Dr. Adoniram Judson, the Baptist missionary, when he concluded to part from his wife, sho to come to America to restore here healtb, he to go back to Burma to preach the gospel. They had started from Burma for the United States to gether; but, getting near St. Helens, Mrs. Judson was so much better soe said: "Well, now I can get home very easly. You'go back to Burma and preach the gospel to those poor people. I am almost well. I shall soon be well, and then I will return to you." After she had made that resolution, terrific in its grief, willing to give up her hue band for Christ's sake, she sat down in her room and with trembling hand wrote some eight or ten verses, four of which I will now give you: We part on this green is'et, love Thou for the estern main; 1 for the setting sun love; Oh, when to meet again! -When we knelt to see our Henry die and heard his last faint moan, Each wiped away the other'us tears; Now each must weep alone. Andi who can paint our mutnal joy When, all our wandering o'er, We both shall e'asp our inats three At home en Burma's shore? But h'gher shall our raptures glow On yrou celear~ial plaia 'When leved and parted here below Meet neer to part again. She folded that manuscript, a relapse of her dis-ase came on, and she died. Dr Jadson says he put her away for .he resurrection on the isle of St. Reiena They had thought to part for a year or two. Now they parted forever, so far as this world is concerned. And he says he hastened on board after the funeral with his iittle children to start for Burma, for the vessel had already lifted her sai:s. And he says, "I sat down for some time in my cabin my little children arou me crying, "Mother, mother!" And I abandontd myself to aieartbreaking grief. But one day the thougnt came across me as my faith stretche-d her wing that we should maeet agai~a in heaven, and I was comnforted.' Was it, my friends, all a delasioL.? When he died, did she meet him at -he landing? When she died, did the scores of souls whom she had brought to Christ and who had precedad her to heaven meet her at the landing? I be ievdtd...[know it._Oh, glorious con earth is done and we cross the river we shall be met at the landing! But there is a thought that comes over me lhke an electric shock. Do I be long to the King's household? Mark you, the text says, "And there went ove a ferryboat to carry over the king's household," and none but the king's household. Then I ask, "Do I belong to the household? Do you?'' If you do not come today and be adopted into that household. "Oh," says some soul here, "I do not know whether the King wants me W He does; he does. Hear the voice from the throne, "I[ will be a father to them, and they shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." "Him that cometh unte me," Unrist saye, "I will in nowise ast cut." Come into the King's house, hold. Sit down at the King's table. Ceme in and take your apparelifrom the King's wardrobe, even the wedding gar ment of Christ's righteousness. Come in and inherit the King's wealth. Come in and cross in the King's ferry boat. Cut His Arm Off. A head on collision occured on the Iron Mountain railway at Desare, Mo., last night between two freight trains killing Engineer James Britt and Brakeman Ed. Bradley. The latter was aught under the wreckage which took fire and his body was cremated. -Fire. man B. Barrett fell under his engine and could only be rescued from being burned alive by cutting his arm off with an axe. Wilam Ralston, conductor and brakeman R D. Scott and brake man G. L. Scott were slightly injured. The two engines were completely de molished and eight cars loaded with lumber and cotton caught fire and were entirely consumed. The collision was caused by Engineer Ross overlooking his meeting point. The loss to the railway company is about $15.,000. MARRIED ON SIGHT. A dispatch from Chatham, 'Va., tells of a romantic wedding which.- occurred there Monday. Miss Lucy Motley, daughter of the Rev. A. William Motley, became the bride of A. Y. Young, Jr., of San Francisco. Mr. Young is worth $20,000, and he and his bzide had never met until a few hours before the cermony was performed. It see Miss -olyi ott. n omo e Mosti aees ndc th poe ofhe Mromog.tio coesondene restiedo an r. opos.a creponncen eutted ondat poposaddin follepaed. sttn at A.a af ..A A in, falland. SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROADS. Income of the Various Lines Show Handsome Increase The State railroad commission is at present hard at work on the preparation of its annual report to the General As sembly. 0? course, all the figures are not available for the annual gene;al stamenut ehowing the year's business of the lines in the State, but it is pos sible to show the total income from all sources and the total income less the expenses, nft including taxes, by roads for a!! the roads save three very small ones, the Branchville and Bowman, the Georgetown and Western and the Hampton and Branchville. Repeated efforts have been made to secure these reports without result. They are de laying the appearance of the report. From the figures in hand the roads have a total income from all sources amounting to very nearly ten million of dollars, the missing roads having enough to run it to that mark, the in crease over the- preceding year being $1,072,163 38. 'The total expense including mainten ance of ways ad structures, mainten ance and equipment, transportation and general expensecs amount to $6 766, 732.62 as against $5,841.36171 last year, makinz the total income less ex penses $3,221813.80 against $3,085, 136 81 last ycar. From this total income less expenses $359.058 99 in taxss has to be deducted that being the total amount of taxes charged. The increase in expenses is attributed largely to the laying of new rails, the improvement of properties, etc , which is general at this tims. The total deficit is $52 253 81, charged only to those new or rehabilitated lines br.ought into use during the year. Tne Atlantic Coast Line system shows a total income for the year of $2,493,077 20, as against $1 851,128-71 "or Jast year, this being one of the principal increases. The Southern railway in South Carolina shows $1, 511.565 75 this year, against $1,472, 120 66 last year, and the total less ex penses is $510 511.12 against $697,991 - 13 list year. The other Southern line, the Ashe ville and Spartanburg and the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line, show hand some increases, however. The report this year will show 191 miles of now road built and received during the year 1900. The largest items in this total are the new lints of the Seaboard Air Lne and the Southern railways. THE PERENNIAL PROBLEM. The Two Classes That Husbands May Be Divided Into. The problem as to whether husbands really love their wives is again upper most in society, and battle, and mur der and sudden death, pelitics, trusts, floods, earti q akes, heat, hades and and hurry have been relegated to their proper places. Husbands may be roughly divided into two great classes--those who are managed by their wives and those who think they are not. The rest are so far in the minority that they are not worth considering. But the fadt that a husband is daly contr',lled by his wife is no endence that he loves her or that he does not. The average husband is a meek, bur den bearing animal, with domestic traits, his mind intent on one or two ;hings, and it is a comparitively easy thing to shift him about. A light breeze may blow him in almost any dirction, provided ho is let alone on the oae sub ject he is interestecd in, and if a light bretze does not s'uffice, the average wife is almost always qugat to the emergency, and can induce a more powerful acolian current at a moment's notice. But do hus sands love their wives? They do, they do! And the proof lied in the subject on which the average man is interested in, to the exclusion of everything else, even to the excite menL of making love to his wife. And this subject is the almighty dellar. He hasn't time for anything else, and he crates it mostly for love of his partner. It may not be amiss to say that our mnommoth dry goo-ds establishments are puiaaung mon aments to the love that ane average husband bears to the aver age wife-- God bless her!--Life. Hester a Cotton Statement. Secretary Hester's weekiy New Orleans cotton exchange statement shows for ane 14 days or December an increase over last year of 160,000. For the 105S days of the season that have elapsed the aggregate is ahead of the 105 days of last year 459,000. The amount brought into sight dur ing the past week has been 445,357 against 349,877 for the seven days end ing this oate last year, and for the 14 days of December it has been 886,488 against 726,918 last year. The se m~ake the total movement for the 105 day s from Sept. 1 to date 5,705, 639 against 5.246,578 last year. The movement since 8ept. 1 shows the re oceipts at all United States ports 3,975, 647 against 3,499,557 last year, over iand across thie Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac rivers to northern mills and Canada 582,053 against 712,816 last year; interior stocks in excess of these held at the oce of the commercial year 650,863 against 524,801 last year;. southern mill takings 497,256 against 509,404 last year. Foreien experm for the week have been 1767285 against 122 615 last year, makizg tne total thus far for the sea son 2,796,926 against 2,218,157 last year. Northern mill takings and Canada during the past seven days show a de crease of 11,593. The total takings of American mills north and south and Canada thus far for the season have been 1,410,646 against 1,727,961 last year. Stocks at the seaboard and the 29 leading southern interior centres have increased during the week 134,322 bales and are now 283,592 smaller than at this date in 1899. Including stocks left over at ports and interior towns from the last crop and the number of bales brought into sight thus far for the new crop, the supply to date is 5,828,173 against 5, 865,476 for the same period last year. THE TRUS1' WINS. The Republican supreme court of Ohio has finally dismissed the proceed ings against the Standard Oil company for violating its order, issued under the anti trust law of the State, to dissolve. The Republican attorney general who secured this order and menaced the great trust had been previously dii missed by his party. These justices have well and quickly learned the les son of the election, TH E PEN8ION CANCER. The pension appropriation bill was completed Thursday by the house sub committee on ap~propriatios. It car ries abo~u' $145 20,000, of which about $144,000,000 is for pensions and the balance for administration. Vienna Women in a Foot Race. A singular race for which only women were allowed to compete, was -writes our Vienna correspondent arranged a few days ago in the sub urbs of this city. The distance to be run was about five English miles, and the prizes offered were a gold watch and chain, a silver watch and chain, gold bracelets and sums of money. Twenty-seven women were entered for the race and-one was started every five minutes. Thousands of persons lined the streets and roads, greeting the competitors with ironical cheers. The police had much trouble in keep ing the course clear and to preserve order. Agents at different points con trolled the race, and cyclists accom panied the runners. Of the starters, 25 reached the goal, a village outside the capital. The winner of the gold watch accomplished the distance in one hour and ten minutes. The win ner of the fourth race was a woman of 58. The first five prizes were won by married women, and the two last by young girls.-London Telegrabh. Exaggerated Maps of Spain. Oscar F. Williams. who was consul general of the United States at Mar nila when the Filipino insurrection broke out, says that in the maps of Europe which were used In the F11 ipino schools under the Spanish re gime a large place in the center of that continent, usually occupying more than one-half the page, was marked Spain. All the rest of the countries were scattered about the edge. Thus the young Filipino came to have a very distorted idea of the magnitude of the country of his op pressors. Even Aguinaldo was sur prised to learn that America covers a greater area than Spain.-N. Y Herald. A Woman's Club in Hawaii. Mention may be made of the Hawa iian Woman's club, successfully launched In Honolulu five years ago. It was started by an American school teacher who was wont to invite young girls to her home ouce a week for in formal conversation on some topio. The outgrowth was a full-ftedged club of 34 members, most of them being Ha waiiana, with a mirture, however, of Chinese and Portuguese. The president this year is a Chinese girl, who wears her quaint national costume when she ills the official chair. -Bertha Damaris Knobe, in Woman's Home Companion. Diplomatie. Proud Mammar-Wasn't Georgie a noble little gentleman to insist upon Nellie's helping herself to a peach be fore he took one himself ? Uncle Henry-Oh, yes, very noble. Georgie, what made you let Nellie help herself Arst? Georgie-Because there wa'n't but two peaches, a great big one and a H1 tIle bit of one. I knew Nellie would be too polite to take the big one.-Boston Transcript. Few Beds in Russia. Beds are comparatively scarce In Russia, and many well-to-do houses are still unprovided with them. Peasants sleep on the tops of their ovens; middle-class people and serv ants roll themselves up in sheepskins and lie down near stoves; soldiers rest upon wooden cots without bedding, and it is only within the last few years that students in schools have been allowed beds.-N. Y. Sun. Rulers of China. The emperor of China is assisted by a cabinet, a council of state and the six boards. There Is no prime minis ter, but there are six chanellors, who mediate between him and the subor dinate officials. The emperor, like the sultan of Turkey, attends to all the de tails. The chancellors are assisted by 600 scribes, translators and other of icials, half of whom are Manchus or foreigners.-N. Y. Journal. He Wasgo Egotist. "Will you marry me, Miss Tom mey?" asked Mr. Collingwood. "No, indeed," replied she. "I wouldn't marry the best man en earth." "Of course you won't. You'll never have an opportunity. But that is no reason why you shouldn't marry me." -Detroit F'ree Press. Near Enough. Tommy-Pa, what does "disagree" mean? Pac-Well, when two people tInuk alike they are said to agree. New, you ean guess what "disagree" means. "Oh, yes, that's when only one pee pie thinks alike."-Philadelphia Press. Not in the Bill Mrs. Nagsby (impatiently calling) Nora, drop everything at once and comn. to mel Nora-Yes, ma'am. "Now, what's the baby crying for?' "'Cause I dropped him, ma'am." Glasgow Evening Times. No Pleasures in City Life. "Pa, let's move in the country; 1 don't want to live In town." "Why not, Bobby?". "Well, pa, ma says if we live here till i'm grown up an' gray-headed she won' lemme keep a pig."-Indianapolis Journal. Expressive Eyes. When you see a girl trying to stare at you and look sad at the same time you may generally be sure some man has told her she has such "expressive eyes."-N. Y. Press. Too Far Behind. Milly-I understand that Miss Elder ly Is getting to be very fast. Willy-Yes; but she'll never make up the time she has lost.-Smart Set. Your Faults. Your friends notice lots of your faults that escape your enemies. Atchison Globe. To See Herself. Mrs. Givem-Isn't Mrs. Loudleigha rather ostentatious about her charita ble works? Mrs. Roastem - Ostentatious? I should say so. Why, that woman would like to have a pier glass over her mantle of charity.-Baltimore American. Clearer Vision. She-Before we were married you used to say I was the apple of your eye. He-Maybe I did; but I've had my eye peeled since then.-Philadelphis Bulletin. Public Spirit. "Mr. Biggleson is quite a philan thropist, isn't he?" "Yes. He always draws up the sub scription papers other people are asked to sign."-Chicago Times-Her ad. Verdi's Nerve. Verdi Is erecting a home for super annuated Italian artists of all classes. Although almost 94) yea.rs of age, says the Washington Star, he is himself far from being eligible to admission to such an institution. ~ ,-. THE a Grove's'l The formula is know just -what yot do not advertise the their medicine if yo Iron and Quinine pu form. The Iron malaria out of the s Grove's is the Orij Chill Tonics are im that Grove's is su are not experimenti and excellence hai only Chill Cure so the United States. OLD rixE CHRISTEASES. Changes Wrought During The Last a Half Century. The Christmas of 1847 was a simple t and tender affair, consisting mainly of e Santa Claus an. well filled stockings m The presents were home-made, with a i few added sweetmeats and toys. Think p of the changes! An orarge was a sight more rare than custard-apples are now. 1 A banana I do not remember having ' seen before 1850.. Farmers used flint I locks to shoot the squirrels for a Chris mas pie-or what we used to call the 'Queen's arms." These were British musdets, captured during the revolu- I tion. The first breech loader was pat ented in 1836; but they were notin com mon use. We went in thick stoga boots because rubbers were barely known; aud I do not think a rubber boot was in existence. What we bad were a sort t of Indian moccasin imported from Bra o il, capable of wearing for ten years. The first Goodyear patent was taken o out in 1835. About the same time the I first machine was put in operation for v making pens, while for pens we used e goose quills or even hen quills. It was d however, a peculiarly inventive per- c period. All the knick- knacks that are I most fimiliar to us were then novelties t and costly. A bunch of pins in a Christ- I mas stocking was not despised. if a t b x of matches could have been had it I would have been a welcome gift from I Santa Claus. The stockin-gs were hung up by the r huge old fireplace, where great logsa burned and coals were covered up at 1 ight. In rural sections we had never seen a scuttle of coal and had only a bheard of it as an effort to burn black t stones. Whale-oil lamps marked thea advanced line of progress in lighting t streets sad houses. There was no dream f canned fruits and cocoa and choco late, although we had plenty of tea anda ecofee. It was impossible to give a rew ing machineor a photograph. Daguer reoty pes were not devised until 1839; and the first were taken in America at least a year later. I remember when Avery, who took the first' sun picture west of Albany, carried it up and down the streets, fiukhed with bis success; and ran into house after house to ex nibit it. it was a ghostly affair, to be :quinted at anda guessed out; but af ter allin was the beginning of a great art. The presents were luiler or af,~ ction bcause home made. The whole famriy nad been at work for weeks planning and executin-g Little gifts. Tue boys made boxes and tos and hand sleds. fue women made stockings and mnuffikrs and damnty cap;, whrie tne g~rls made lippers, and the fathers made shoes. A home was a word that meant great ahings in thiose days; for both the wo men and the men had trades, as well as a knack and a knowledge of land cul ure. It is interesting to note that some of our best observers and social students prophesy a large reacuion form uur present fast and uneasy age to the :qiet and calm of those earlier days of ne century. Or course we shalh not gve up our inventionle; but with them we may lose our bosa excitement, and react to another jeriod of reconsidera ion. This has been the history of the past. The most delightful part of these old-time holidays was the sports, pure and free from every guile. Our even ings were always at home; and in the one great family room, which was the dining room and the kitchen in one, we gathered before the huge fire of logs and had that sort of unadulterated fun which can be had only where the whole family is united. We parched our home grown corn, and made our andy of molasses, and played simple games, in which no one joined more heartly than the father and mother. No child was ever permitted to absent imself from the household after dark without the direction of his parents. But after 9 o'clock no one ever thought f being absent. Then we were in our beds. If we react to taese or to simpler methods of living it will be by a resurrection of more home life. Let us see to it that the farm home is more of a home, and the farmhouse family more self-contained. $100 Eeward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least, one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a onstitutional disease, requires consti utional treatment. Hall's Catarrh ure is taken internally, acting direct upon the blood and mucous surfaces , the system, thereby destroying - foundation of the disease and giving apj patient strength by building up the 2 stitution and assisting nature in If y its work. The proprietors ha O much faith in its curative power~~ a they offer One Hundred DolJ~o any case that it fails to cure. 1for list of testimonials. Addre F. J. CHENEY &CO.~5 I Sold by Druggists, 75c.( Hail's Family Pills are tS'Cat. WITH a corn cro 2,108, 300,000 bushels, a w harvest of 500,000,000 bush anid an jat yield of 800,0 bushels this year, it wo . In that J President McKin ght have given the Lord credit'for prosperity. 0 MAK(tS AS FA AS FAT * .. PIC ~ PG EST PRESCRIPT asteless Chi plainly printed on every i are taking when you take ir formula knowing that yo u knew what it contained. t up in correct proportions ar acts as a tonic while the ystem. Any reliable druggist inaI and that all other itations. An analysis of othe perior to all others in cv ng when. you 'take Grove ring long been establishe [d throughout the entire r No Cure, No Pay. Price Horrible Rolacaust From the smouldering ruins of the redenia Station Normal and Training chool, Dunkirk, N. Y.. which was de troyed by flregt 6 o'clock Friday morn og, one charred body, supposed to be hat of Miss Stcrms, has been recover d, and a revision of the list of missing iakes it certain that seven persons per hed in the Are, which also entailed a roperty loss of $200,000. There were 75 young women studentv a the buildisg, six of whom parished. he other victim was the aged j nitori 'he dead are: Phineas J. Morris, janitor. Irene Jones of Busti, N. Y. Bessie Hathaway of Cannonaville, ew York. Ruth Thomas, Pike, N. Y. Cora Storms, Boston, N. Y. Mae Williams, Lake Coma, Pa. Maud F. Fizsell Bradford, Pa. The young women occupied rooms on he third fior of the building. The rigin of the fi:e is uniknown. The fire started in the private room f Janitor Morn, who evidently lost is life while fire fgting. Miss Fizzll as at the head of the escape and tarn d back into the ,uilding to save a iamond ring, thus losing her life. The thera who perished suffaicated without ocating the fire escape. Is is stattd hat beaiy wire screers were firmly iailed across the windows leading to he fire escapes and the only way the Ucky ones escaped was by crawling lrough the windows adjaeent to the sopes and then creeping along the cof. Lawyers say there will be dam e suits instituted against the' State ecause of the fire escape screens. A search for remains is being made s rapidly as pcssible, but digging over he debris, which is still burning, is low work. Principal Palmer estimates he loss at $200,000, with $93,000 in uae. Nothing was saved from the bagnifcient building, not even person l (feets. kri to Isal our Line of kBtinery and Uil.nppliss. --LADERS: Lane, Chase, Hege, Liddell and High Point eaw mxills The Murray Cleanag and Distributing System. Liidefl automiatie and plsa Bagine. "Sioux" Oor iu. Engines. "New &onth" Brict 1Iaehinery. Farquhar Threshers and Grain DITs. Diaston Saws and Files. Peerless Packings, s;evens Sewer Pipe, and Supplies generally. Erie City Engines and Boilers Egan Woodworking Machinery. "Queen of the 8.,utn" Grist Mills* Kelley Doper Feed Mills Bundy Traps and SteamSpiate Magnolia and Columbia Babett Me N. H. Gibbes & a ACHINERY and MILL SWPP 804 Gernal Str OOLUMLB - Oktma Ys ho EXtssV Steam j g of everyfl descrlpt ~ Steam, Napj for oUD . price list rb circg All work e ante nfo charge. Buj Baa treet ida jOrtman, Pr For sal __________ dealers PITS Colamt~ res La rippe, sole orr alistomach and with~ lea morbus, andlj dren, kidney ~ ents andU Ports of bras, r00na&7 "J"' '"Was URRY Dj (1. ID!~real estate, 0t per cent. 6j~ years. T e. iioscharged MU Palner, IDJJ m~al Bank Building, Couaba, 8. c. ON IS 11 Tonic. bottle-hence you Grovc's. Imitators u would not- buy >1 Grove's contains id is in a Tasteless quiniac drives the will tell -you that o-called Tasteless r chill tonics shows :ry respcct. You 7 's-its superiority 1. Grove's is the nalarial sections of SawMlls, Corn Mill Cane MillsW Rice Hulie Pea Hullers, Engines, Boilers, Planers and Matchers, Swing Saw R.p Rip Saws, and all other kinds o working machinery. My geant Log Beam Saw mIE' the heaviest, "trongess, most efficient mill money on the mark accurate. State B. Smith Machine wrood working For high grade e slide valve-Au Corliss, write Watertown, a and Wells.. V. C. 1328 Main 8t., The New. of all n ord Id. . L. 8H2 1 P~orstee D NORTH 8TATE OINI? T, the Great Antiseptic ir, Cures PilesEzzzg cldes, Boils, Cat, rgj. dSores, Burns, Corngs ', Ingrowing Toena~s, tmatory Rheumdam, and Pains, Chapped aomething elas.~ Once used alwayusd ebyaldrgzan [URAY DRUG 00., ray's nlatic th h hitAens the Tee Cleanses the. Mon Sweetn the Ba ay Co., 'OOrLU~mr4